OSCE MG co-chairs to meet with Azerbaijani, Armenian foreign ministers

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the U.S. and Personal representative of OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk will meet with Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandian as part of 64th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov said.

Merzlyakov said he did not know new American co-chair Robert Bradtke and would acquaint with him in New York. Russian diplomat said Mammadyarov and Nalbandian would discuss the planned meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan in Chisinau.

The co-chair said the presidents principally agreed to meet, but the final agreement had not been reached yet.

According to the diplomat, if agreement is reached, the meetings will take place on Oct. 10.

Merzlyakov noted the political situation in Moldova and said he could not say whether the meeting would take place or not.

“The protocols on the normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations will possibly be signed on Oct. 13 following the Chisinau meeting.

Asked whether decision on liberating Azerbaijani territories might be passed in Chisinau the Russian co-chair said: “As far as I know there is nothing about Nagorno-Karabakh in the text of the protocols.”

Yuri Merzlyakov said he would leave the post of co-chair by the end of the year and did not know who would succeed him. As regards the reports that Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin would be appointed to the post, Merzlyakov said those reports had been refuted.

Elmar Mammadyarov will on a visit to New York on Sept. 21-27.

/APA/